Posts tagged ‘US Senate’

Oil made its way into various public conversations between last month’s posting of The Oil Big Five and this month’s roundup of some of oil’s biggest and hottest topics. Looking back over the past few weeks, and then looking forward toward the rest of the year, it’s clear that there may not be any slowing down anytime soon.

Welcome, once again, to The Oil Big Five, where we ask our oil editors and analysts worldwide what they think are the most important or interesting topics in oil at the moment.

There’s an economic argument to be made for lifting US crude oil export restrictions, and then there’s the argument that American oil could go a long way toward providing security to the US and its allies. Brian Scheid explains in this week’s Oilgram News column, Regulation and Environment.

Every hero needs a sidekick, every dog needs its day, and every oil and gas conference has to talk about bettering communication with the public, it seems.

The 2015 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston this week is no exception. Today is the first day of the conference, which regularly brings in about 90,000 attendees (or more) to hear from industry execs and elected officials and to learn about the companies, organizations and countries represented in booths and demonstrations.

The jaw-dropping letter that 47 Republican senators drafted to Iranian leaders as a warning shot over nuclear negotiations has some prominent signatories — the party’s entire Senate leadership team and a few possible presidential contenders in Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio.

But the letter, first reported by Bloomberg, is missing the signature of one significant senator: Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican who chairs the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee.